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My Dad's Experiment with Shengmingsu

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Earlier this summer we got our hands on a few samples of Yongye International's Shengmingsu fertilizer product. In the interest of due diligence, I sent one to my master gardening father to test on his vegetable garden. Here's a photo of how it worked on his peppers in a controlled test. The bigger one is treated with Shengmingsu, so my dad was pretty happy with the product and its results.

Those do not look like the same breed of pepper....not calling it out...but i am curious. As a chef and avid gardener...I am interested in the pepper variety we are looking at. The one on the left looks closest to a Jalepeno(almost certain)...one on the right looks like an Aneheim or possibly Green Pepper. The one on the left shows no exterior "rib" lines, while the one on the right has very defined ribs.

If that fertilizer made a Jalepeno look like that... something is very wrong there. Is the fert. organic?...or a melange of chemicals?

Both are jalepenos. The smaller fruit is from an untreated plant, while the larger is from a plant fertilized with Shengmingsu. Note, it's a very small sample size, but my dad intends to expand the experiment next year (like Chinese farmers, he is skeptical about introducing new products and does so slowly).

nola...since jalepenos are generally sold by the pound...I can't imagine it helping the end user...other than the fact that you wouldn't have to cut and clean as many peppers to yeild the same usable amount. But, can you imagine the fun with "stuffed" jalepenos you could have now!!

The acid used in the fert is extracted from coal...which seems a little weird...but i haven't done a ton of research into this...so it may be ok.

Very strange that it appears to contain chemicals extracted from coal. Be careful - much of coal biproducts (benzenes, etc) are very carcinogenic. And lets just say, that I don't trust Chinese food products very much in the safety regard...

If you are really serious about this product, maybe you could have a lab test the substances using Mass Spectroscopy, and see if its really safe. If its good, invest - if not, call the FDA to bust them..

Very strange that it appears to contain chemicals extracted from coal. Be careful - much of coal biproducts (benzenes, etc) are very carcinogenic. And lets just say, that I don't trust Chinese food products very much in the safety regard...

If you are really serious about this product, maybe you could have a lab test the substances using Mass Spectroscopy, and see if its really safe. If its good, invest - if not, call the FDA to bust them..

Rofgile, there is nothing to be so careful about. Fulvic acid research has been worldwide and goes back decades; and Yongye's products have already been well-tested. There is no carcinogenic risk or anything of the sort. If you are interested, contact me via the Yahoo Message Board for YONG; and I will share a research review with you.

Size and beauty are great with produce, but how does the taste compare one to the other? Does the big one lack flavor or 'heat'? I notice produce from California is often tasteless compared to produce grown elsewhere. Is this the case with papas peppers?

I agree with Devoish. It is nice to know that plants grow faster with fertilizer, but we kind of know that for 100+ years. So if the pepper grows as fast with horseshit, well, by owning YONG, we may not be sitting on a pile of gold but of something else.